iPod Woe

Given that I use my iPod an average of eight hours a day, five or six days a week, I'm not terribly surprised that my two 20 gig fourth gen iPods (the Little White Jukebox O'Doom) both crapped out after about a year of use and abuse.

Woe, woe betide me when I realized that the click wheel on Bloody Billy the iPod of Cumberland (successor to Charlie, the Little White Pretender*) was decidely Not Working Properly since I hardly have the money to replace my Tiny White Extravagance. Oh, Woe.

Woe.

But all is not lost, for I have learned of a Marvellous Place - iRepair.ca down at College and Bathurst - which promises to fix my iPod for a mere $40 plus taxes or less than a fifth of the cost of replacing BBtiPoC with a smaller model.

I know what I'm doing tomorrow afternoon, oh, yes. Indeed.

As iRepair.ca also offers an online service (their motto: saving iPods from landfills), I will report back on how it goes. So far, I think it's an utterly fabulous idea. Let's hear it for Canadian innovation and pragmatism, eh?

*Historian bonus points for those who pick up the allusions.